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Karelians live, and did even more so before Stalinism and the Great Purges, also in vast areas east of Finland ( in Eastern Karelia, not marked on the map to the right ), where folklore, language and architecture during the 19th century was in the center of the Finns ' interest ( see Karelianism ), representing a " purer " Finnish culture than that of Southern and Western Finland, which had been for thousands of years in more contact with ( or " contaminated by ") Germanic and Scandinavian culture, of which the Kalevala and Finnish Art Nouveau are expressions.
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Karelians and live
Due to post-WWII mobility and internal migration, Karelians now live scattered throughout Finland, and Karelian is no longer spoken as a local community language.
The North Karelians include the Olonets and the Ludes, speakers of Olonets Karelian language and Ludic language live in the Russian Republic of Karelia.
A branch of Karelians, known as Tver Karelians used to live in the oblast.
The Kholmogory area was at first in historical times inhabited by the Finno-Ugrians " Savolotshij Thsuuds ", ( sa-volokis, i. e. " the Chud live beyond the portage "), known also as Yems in old Novgorod chronicles, and Karelians.
Karelians and did
In 1926, according to the census, Karelians only counted for 37. 4 % of the population in the Soviet Karelian Republic ( which at that time did not yet include territories that would later be taken from Finland and added, most of which had mostly Karelian inhabitants ), or 0. 1 million Karelians.
Karelians and even
The Orthodox Karelians in North Karelia and Russia were now seen as close brethren or even a sub-group of the Finns.
Karelians and more
The most coined version of Greater Finland was thought to be limited by natural borders encompassing the territories inhabited by Finns and Karelians, ranging from the White Sea to Lake Onega and along the Svir River and Neva River – or, more modestly, the Sestra River – to the Gulf of Finland.
Karelians and so
The treaty delineated spheres of influence among the Finns and Karelians and was supposed to be an " eternal peace ", but Magnus ' relations with Russia were not so peaceful.
Karelians are Finnish, and so much of their music is the same as Finnish music.
Karelians and before
Negotiations with the Novgorodian mayor ( Posadnik ) Fedor were inconclusive and the Swedes attacked Karelians around Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega before a peace was concluded in 1339 along the old terms of the 1323 treaty.
On July 10, 1941, Mannerheim referred to his 1918 declaration in his " Order of the Day " speech to his troops: "... in 1918 I stated to the Finnish and Vienna Karelians, that I would not set my sword to the scabbard before Finland and East Karelia would be free.
Karelians and also
But while genetically related to the later Baltic Finnic peoples, the Rurikids do not possess the DYS390 = 24 mutation associated with East Finns and Karelians, theirs remaining the ancestral DYS390 = 23 ( which is also found among West Finns ).
The Karelians ( also Karels, Russian Karelians and East Karelians ) are a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group living mostly in the Republic of Karelia and in other north-western parts of the Russian Federation.
The historic homeland of Karelians includes also parts of present-day Eastern Finland ( North Karelia ) and the formerly Finnish territory of Ladoga Karelia.
The Finnish Karelians include also people of East Karelian origin or roots, but these have been linguistically and ethnically assimilated with closely related Finns after the Second World War.
Karelians and areas
Finland ceded southeastern areas of Karelia ( 10 % of Finnish territory ), which resulted in approximately 422, 000 Karelians ( 12 % of Finland's population ) losing their homes.
After the Second World War, Karelians evacuated from areas ceded to Russia were given land in remaining Finnish areas, taken from public and private holdings.
In the 17th century the tension between the Lutheran Swedish government and Orthodox Karelians triggered a mass migration from these areas into the region of Tver in Russia, forming the Tver Karelians minority.
Sweden and Novgorod had already de facto established their areas of influence in eastern Fennoscandia, with Karelians under Russian rule and other tribes in the west under Swedish rule.
Until 1940, the Ladoga shore southwest of Sortavala had been one of the very few relatively densely populated areas north of the Karelian Isthmus populated by Karelians.
The migration started at the latest in the beginning of the 14th century CE on areas loosely controlled by Kvens and Karelians.
As a result of this territorial loss to the Soviets, many Finnish Karelians fled or were evacuated from their homes, relocating to areas that remained within the borders of Finland.
Whereas the Finnic tribes historically inhabiting the modern-day area of Finland and the surrounding areas ( Kvens, Tavastians, Savonians, Karelians, etc.
Karelians and east
In the 12th-15th century, the territory was divided between the Kingdom of Sweden and Novgorod Republic ( see Swedish-Novgorodian Wars ) and mostly populated by Karelians ( northwest ), Izhorians and Votes ( west ), Vepsians ( east ), and Novgorodians East Slavs ( south ).
But towards north many pagan tribes — alas !— stretch from the east behind Norway, namely Karelians ( Kiriali ) and Kvens ( Kwæni ), corneous Sami people ( cornuti Finni ) and both peoples of Bjarmia ( utrique Biarmones ).
Karelians and Finland
The returned Karelians were evacuated to Finland again.
The Finnish Karelians were evacuated to Finland again.
After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland.
In a process starting during the 17th century and culminating after the Second World War, the ethnic Karelians in Finland have been linguistically and ethnically assimilated with the closely related Finnish people and are included in the wider group of Finnish Karelians, who are considered to form a sub-group of the ethnic Finns.
The ideology of Karelianism inspired Finnish artists and researchers, who believed that the Orthodox Karelians had retained elements of an archaic, original Finnish culture which had disappeared from Finland.
When Finland gained its independence in 1917 only a small fraction of the Orthodox Karelians lived in the Finnish Karelia, and in three villages of Oulu province.
55 000 Orthodox Karelians were included among the people Finland evacuated from Ladoga Karelia.
By 2002, there were only 65651 Karelians in the Republic of Karelia ( 65. 1 % of the number in 1926, including the Karelian regions taken from Finland which were not counted in 1926 ), and Karelians made up only 9. 2 % of the population in their homeland.
The inhabitants of Karelian provinces historically belonging to Finland are known as Karelians.
In historic times, in the area of the present southern Finland lived three tribes, which were the Finns, the Tavastians and the Karelians.
A western branch, which disappeared due to ongoing land uplift, was an alternative route for the Karelians to reach the Gulf of Finland when the River Neva was blocked by enemies.
Karelians who evacuated from Finnish Karelia resettled all over Finland and today there are approximately one million people in Finland having their roots in the area ceded to the Soviet Union after the World War II.
After the Winter War, Karelian municipalities and parishes established Karjalan Liitto ( the Karelian Association ) to defend the rights of Karelians in Finland.
Karelians and Eastern
Since the 13th century the Karelians have lived in the tension between the East and the West, between Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Catholicism, later Lutheranism.
The Russian Karelians are Eastern Orthodox Christians.
Karelians and Karelia
In this time many Karelians escaped to Tver's Karelia.
:* Karelia, the land of Karelians, in its most general sense
Earlier attempts in 1918 to Petsamo and White Karelia ( Viena expedition ) had failed, partly due to a passive attitude of the Karelians.
The largest groups are North Karelians living in Republic of Karelia and the South Karelians in the Tver, Novgorod and in the Leningrad Oblast of Russian federation.
People from Savonia moved to Karelia in large numbers, and the present-day Finnish Karelians are largely their descendants.
The Russian Karelians, living in the Republic of Karelia, are nowadays rapidly being absorbed into the Russian population.
Significant enclaves of Karelians exist in the Tver oblast of Russia, resettled after Russia's defeat in 1617 against Sweden — in order to escape the peril of forced conversion to Lutheranism in Swedish Karelia and because the Russians promised tax deductions the Orthodox Karelians mass migrated there.
The Finnish Karelians include the present-day inhabitants of North and South Karelia and the still-surviving evacuees from the ceded territories.
However, the Orthodox religion is still maintained by many Finnish Karelians with East Karelian background, especially in North Karelia ; the majority of the Finnish Karelians are predominantly Lutheran.
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